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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice bed for that matter. Butcher slept only 22 hours during the 11 days of this year's race. However, she allowed her dogs to rest every four hours. "If you sleep too long, you've lost the race," Butcher says. "But dogs need a lot of sleep...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Racing the Iditarod | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

...this point, after the good advice of his sexologist has either been forgotten or ignored, Gary is caught between a rock and a hard place. Simultaneously he must try to convince the voters that a) He had a beautiful woman in his home, but did not sleep with her, and b) He is not a homosexual...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Spring Sex Tips | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

Other unusual delights kept cropping up. "Any King's Shilling," a new ballad about his grandfather going to war, and "Sleep Of the Just" came across as powerful Richard Thompson-style folk tunes. His reworking of "Inch by Inch" from the personal low LP Goodbye Cruel World redeemed that song from its over-produced vinyl version. And his rendition of "Heathen Town," a b-side of the "Every Day I Write the Book" single was tremendous...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: A Night of Brilliance and Mistakes | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...true as what you've just read. I could regale you for pages with tales of my brushes with the high and mighty: Bill Madlock, Cloris Leachman, Howard Cosell, Placido Domingo, Ronald McDonald. The list goes on and on. But I just don't know if I could sleep at night upon the wreckage of the broken careers, the shattered lives that would result from such a work...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: The Stars Juast Seem to Like Me: | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...traditional elements that to some extent still typify the college experience--throwing off the values of one's parents and defining one's own, trying to outdo one another in radical political jargon, experimental binges of drugs, sex and sleep--assumed and added dimension for women in the early 1970s. "Five years earlier," Schumer writes, "men had been required to wear jackets and ties in the dining halls, and women weren't allowed in the undergraduate library in Harvard Yard. Now mattresses were pushed together on the floors and even the toilets were co-ed....What an anachronism the Radcliffe...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: The Edge of the Cliffe: | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

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